And the costs and revenues of once-separate businesses have a nasty habit of getting tangled up, which makes it more difficult to judge the true profitability of each.

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Kaan heads a team of savvy and deeply sarcastic problem solvers who parachute into various business crises, including some adapted from real-life news stories, such as a sports team tangled up in its owners' ugly divorce.

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Still, even taking into consideration Powell's clear desire to be perceived as a swift-moving business advocate who would free up the FCC's tangled regulatory web, many experts say it would have been tough for him to give the merger the green light.

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Mr Jolstad and his co-founder Ilya Kruglenko - who first met each other in Moscow during the 1990s while selling second-hand Australian telephones to the Russians - initially created Magic Desktop to protect their own children from getting tangled up in an unpleasant web.

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Several closely-packed cars were jostling for position at top speed when they got tangled up, setting off a dangerous chain reaction that ensnared a number of vehicles.

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In "Raylan, " out next week, the marshal gets tangled up with criminals who try to cut out his kidneys, a corrupt coal-company executive and a thuggish strip-club owner.

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After Henry made the front end of a one-and-one, the Spiders' Derrick Williams and Charlotte's Willie Clayton got tangled up setting up for a potential rebound.

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